Geoff Tanner
Analyst · William Blair. Please proceed with your question.
When we acquired Quest, it was primarily a bar business, I think bars are about 80% of the business. Today, bars are just a little bit over 50%. And that is because in the last few years, we have successfully launched new products and formats that have really propelled the business. For example, in fiscal '24, we anticipate our salty snack platform to be over $200 million in net sales, 25% of the Quest portfolio. But to your question, importantly, this innovation has proven to be highly incremental to the brand and very importantly, to the category. For example, 30% of new users to the brand have come from chips. But critically, why we've been growing the bar business has grown 22% year-to-date. So Quest has proven it's one of the few brands that can successfully extend across multiple product forms. I'll go a step further. Our consumers are demanding it, and our retailers are asking for it and that's the opportunity. I spent a lot of time with Quest consumers over the last 6 months. To them Quest is a lifestyle brand, it sort of brilliant hack of sorts. It's not just a product brand, and it's why they're demanding us to bring out additional formats that we're focused on. So what I would suggest is if you think about a large and perhaps growing carbohydrate, dense snack where we can flip the macros you can probably bet we're looking at it. We've seen, again, that innovation to be highly incremental, brings in new users. But very importantly, retailers see it to us bringing in new category users. And that's why we're getting the support of retailers. And then, I guess, lastly, you've talked about where we're going with the brand. Yes, we'll continue to push out on innovation. There's still distribution weight space. I think Jason made a reference to that. But the next arrow we're pulling out in Quest is marketing. It's talked about the awareness is relatively low versus most brands. There's an opportunity to drive additional witness and household penetration behind a focused and world-class marketing campaign that we'll be rolling out in the new year. So those are the 3 drivers of Quest, but I'll just underscore, this is an incremental brand driving incremental consumers.